Daryl McCormack joins the cast of 2000 AD’s Rogue Trooper

Irish actor Daryl McCromack has just been announced as the latest addition to the cast of Rogue Trooper, an animated adaptation of the 2000 AD comic adventure written and directed by Moon’s Duncan Jones.

Starring Aneurin Barnard (The Goldfinch, Dunkirk), the 1981 comic adaptation is also set to include fellow Dunrkirk actor Jack Lowden, Saltburn’s Reece Shearsmith, Captain America: The First Avenger's Hayley Atwell, Sex Education’s Asa Butterfield and Game of Thrones’ Sean Bean.

The sci-fi war story, written by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons in 1981, tells the story of 19, a “Genetic Infantryman” on the hunt for the traitor who betrayed him and his comrades.

"2000 AD offers a very different flavour of comic action: political and brutal at times, but always with a Pythonesque twinkle in the eye,” said Jones. “It is a genuine privilege to be given the opportunity to make Rogue Trooper.”